Eva Mendes has kept a pretty low profile lately, but she covers the October issue of Lucky magazine. While her aggressively arched eyebrows usually drive me crazy, she looks quite beautiful in this shoot. The clothes are also pretty cool with the exception of the cover. That jacket looks so plasticky and not comfortable at all, but the other outfits are totally things that I would wear.

The interview is kind of weird though because Eva is playing the innocent card when it comes to her own fashion sense. She alludes to her own fashion line, which is supposed to launch sometime this fall, but she’s playing it coy by claiming not to like form-fitting, sexy clothing. That’s a strange assertion from a woman who tries so hard to be sexy that she once claimed to have had sex in all 50 states. Eva also sort of explains that bizarro quasi turban from last year:

She’s so method: “I’ll do anything for a role! For A Place Beyond the Pines, I exercised a lot. I wanted my character to feel really depleted. My mom didn’t understand why I would want to look that way. She’s constantly telling me I’m too skinny!”

No dishing on the Gosling: “You can ask about my boyfriend. I just won’t answer.”

About that turban: “There are days when I don’t feel great, but I put on my favorite dress and throw a scarf in my hair, and it makes all the difference. Hopefully my line can do that for women. Even if you’re not feeling your best, let’s admit it, the right outfit–it helps.”

On her style: “Every time I wear something body-conscious, I regret it. I feel better in a demure look.”

Do you buy that Eva feels entirely uncomfortable in body-conscious clothing? I guess I believe her because while she wears a lot of form-fitting stuff on the red carpet, most of her casual street wear includes sweaters and pants. All the same, she is the type to wander around naked in her own home almost all the time, so maybe her “demure” self-description is merely an act.

+1!! And i personally have a similar body shape like her, just shorter, and i dressed sexier when i was in my 20s, but now, I have realized that dressing lady like and demure is who i am.. there is alot of pressure to look and dress sexy for women of any age, and some of us come into our own and figure out some of these things later (or sooner) than others.. i mean, aware we all supposed to dress like Sofia V forever? Especially for us curvy hispanic/latino women.. imho.. Sexy is nice sometimes, but i prefer how i feel, and how i present myself when i’m dressing like the lady my mother raised me to be.. just my thoughts..

I’m naked in my house a lot, and trust me if I looked like she no doubt does I’d be strutting around with the blinds up. I don’t mean to be naked so much, but I generally stop to do other things between undressing and showering and then two hours later, you’ve spent the morning or evening wandering around in the nude.

Sorry GosGirls but if those pap pics were setup (I dont think they were!), it was probably Goslings team. He had like 3 films coming out back to back and BCoops publicist had just beat his pr guy to the Sexiest Man Alive award. She just didnt have a stake in the extra attention and doesnt have a history of courting paps outside of marketting a role.

The PR of this relationship is always over the top pro Eva, he is so in love, wants to propose bla bla, there also were numerous photo ops of her walking his dog or her getting him food whenever split rumours surfaced, so I believe it was coming from her team.
I think both of them were in on this, but she def tried milking being Ryan Gosling´s gf in the first year of their relationship.

Well even if it was Gosling’s team behind it, she still went along for the ride right?
She was in the same movie as Gosling, The Place Beyond The Pines, so surely the staged PR benefited her career as well, no?

As far as her doing “anything for a role”, that’s nice but unfortunately she was completely forgettable in The Place.

I thought she was actually pretty OK in Pines. The movie was meh and Gosling’s performance was underwhelming.
After his PR overkill, and bad performances in several movies the guy has become completely boring to me.

Mindy, I think they are very much alike when it comes to the paps. And it’s conspicuous that they are rarely papped recently. I assume they both called the paps for their various Starbucks performances.

They seemed to have stopped the photo ops for now. But if you read articles about them, they are always in favor of Eva. How she’s this sexy goddess who can go on all night long and Ryan is too tired to keep up.
I think these little stories are always from her camp. He’s the only thing keeping her relevant, and she knows it.

That movie was horrible. Everyone in it sucked. It was long a bad elongated version of the Larry David show. how many times can we have awkward socially inappropriate exchanges between people.
It was painful to watch.

Her accent was suprisingly caricature…which I was shocked by- given her background. Well her whole character was kind of a cartoon of a latin woman.

I absolutely love her skin tone! I was born pale and freckley so I always wanted even skintone that tanned easily. With that said, I think her facial features are greatly exaggerated. Almost clownish. I wouldn’t say she’s beautiful, but maybe striking?
As for her style, she’s trying to reinvent herself. Wasn’t it her lack of apparel that garnered her attention in the first place?